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India's nursing brain drain: Why building more colleges won't stop the crisis

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If India needed 35 nurses for every 10,000 of its people, it only has 25. Why is this happening? I'll explain with the example of a 51-year-old woman who works at a private nursing home in Rajasthan's Alwar. She handles all critical care, labor and delivery cases. The average salary of a nurse in the United States is nearly $7,000 a month.

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